Sentence examples for tech discourse from inspiring English sources
We love the idea of showcasing how the startup world is about a lot more than just what's happening in Silicon Valley — something that those of us who live outside the Bay Area know well but often feel is under-represented in wider tech discourse (and all the business that goes along with that).
Vayable (Airbnb for experiences) founder Jamie Wong explains the rush of investor interest surrounding the space, "It's interesting that these two side-by-side questions seem to be dominating tech discourse right now: "Are we in a bubble?" and "What's up with all this collaborative consumption?" I think the latter helps answer the former.
Of course, tech-enabled political discourse is not new.
Here's a teaser peak of Motherboard's latest documentary, Free the Network, which looks at how DIY hack-tech is changing the discourse of modern day protests, like Occupy Wall Street.
But it's widely acknowledged now that English is the international language of business, and it's very much the language for discourse in the tech startup space.
But as we thrash around looking for a way to understand it, our public discourse is depressingly Manichean: tech boosters and evangelists at one extreme; angry technophobes at the other; and most of us somewhere in between.
Most of the discourse is about how evil tech companies are (covertly) peddling addictive products/services that are destroying our minds, our society and our relationships.
[Update 2: What's consistent in both statements this week is that Zuckerberg sees Facebook as a third institution that incorporates values of both tech and media: a place for "public discourse".
Its discourse is heavily inflected by Silicon Valley tech-speak and the upbeat abstractions of corporate lingo: disruption and innovation, sustainability and social responsibility.
Someone who is very much on the other spectrum of the tech boom that is so often the subject of public discourse — and of bitcoin in particular.
McClintock says Flood wanted to do a site-specific, tech-centered show in San Francisco to confront issues that surface around discourse on social media and the censorship imposed by the platforms themselves.
